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The best Secureframe alternatives in 2026
The main Secureframe alternatives are Vanta, Drata, Scrut Automation, Sprinto, Scytale, Thoropass, Oneleet, Comp AI, and Delve, plus Screenata, which we make. Vanta and Drata are the closest swaps in shape and price band. Scytale is the nearest match to Secureframe's expert model, with advisors inside the subscription. Screenata is built for the evidence guidance doesn't collect: recorded while your team works, signed, and verifiable by the auditor you choose. If you chose Secureframe for CMMC or FedRAMP, confirm federal support before you switch.
At a glance
10 Secureframe alternatives, side by side.
| Tool | Best for | Price | Auditor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screenata | 5 to 50 person teams that need SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 for customers who will actually read the report. | Request a scoped quote | Your choice. We sell no audit and take no referral fee |
| Vanta | Teams that want the biggest integration catalog and the brand auditors and partners already know. | Quote. | Your choice, via Vanta's auditor network |
| Drata | A dedicated GRC or security team standardizing a larger organization on one configurable platform. | Quote. | Your choice, via Drata's auditor network |
| Scrut Automation | Programs running many frameworks that want one flat price and a configurable risk register. | Quote, flat. | Your choice, via Scrut's auditor network |
| Sprinto | Teams comparing quote-based platforms on total contract value, with someone to work the task queue. | Quote. | Your choice, via Sprinto's auditor network |
| Scytale | Teams that want named advisors inside the subscription, or need SOX ITGC. | Not published; tiered bundles with advisory, quote only | Your choice, via Scytale's auditor network |
| Thoropass | Companies that want one vendor for the platform and the audit, or need SOC 1 or HITRUST alongside SOC 2. | Quote, with the audit inside the price | Thoropass's own CPA firm |
| Oneleet | Teams that want penetration testing, code scanning, and MDM from one vendor with its own testers. | Quote. | Your choice; external CPA firms via Oneleet's auditor portal |
| Comp AI | Teams that want to self-host the platform, or want one price with the audit inside and need the certificate more than the report. | Self-host free (AGPL); managed by quote, audit typically inside | Bundled audit by default; optional in the quote |
| Delve | Teams that want 24/7 concierge access or EU AI Act mappings, once they have checked how its evidence and auditor arrangements work today. | Not published; demo-gated quote | Referred through Delve's network |
Why teams look past Secureframe
What usually starts the search.
The price is a quote
Secureframe doesn't publish pricing.
Guidance still ends in an upload
Secureframe's experts and Comply AI tell your team what to collect, and your team still takes the screenshot and uploads it. Its own benchmark survey found teams spend eight hours a week on compliance tasks, and more than half have one or zero full-time security people.
Federal depth you may not need
Secureframe's standout strength is CMMC and FedRAMP. If your path is SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001, that specialization matters less, and the choice comes down to how the evidence gets produced and what it costs.
The alternatives
Each one, and who it suits.
- ( 01 / 10 )
Evidence platform run by an agent · ours
Screenata
An evidence platform run by an agent. Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team works, and signs every artifact so your auditor can verify it outside the platform.
- Best for
- 5 to 50 person teams that need SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 for customers who will actually read the report.
- Price
- Request a scoped quote
- Auditor
- Your choice. We sell no audit and take no referral fee
- ( 02 / 10 )
GRC platform
Vanta
The broadest GRC platform: the largest integration catalog, 35+ frameworks, an auditor partner network, and AI agents in preview.
- Best for
- Teams that want the biggest integration catalog and the brand auditors and partners already know.
- The closest swap in shape: a dashboard with the largest integration catalog, in a similar Vendr price band.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Vanta's auditor network
- ( 03 / 10 )
GRC platform
Drata
An enterprise-leaning GRC platform: template libraries, hundreds of integrations, automated control tests, and agents for questionnaires and vendor risk.
- Best for
- A dedicated GRC or security team standardizing a larger organization on one configurable platform.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Drata's auditor network
- ( 04 / 10 )
GRC platform
Scrut Automation
A risk-first GRC platform with 60+ frameworks, 24/7 control monitoring, configurable templates, and one flat price regardless of framework count.
- Best for
- Programs running many frameworks that want one flat price and a configurable risk register.
- Price
- Quote, flat.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Scrut's auditor network
- ( 05 / 10 )
GRC platform
Sprinto
A compliance automation platform with continuous monitoring, a broad framework catalog, a task queue for evidence integrations don't reach, and an auditor network.
- Best for
- Teams comparing quote-based platforms on total contract value, with someone to work the task queue.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Sprinto's auditor network
- ( 06 / 10 )
GRC platform + advisory
Scytale
A compliance platform bundled with human advisors, across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 42001, and SOX ITGC.
- Best for
- Teams that want named advisors inside the subscription, or need SOX ITGC.
- The nearest match to Secureframe's expert model: human advisors are part of the subscription.
- Price
- Not published; tiered bundles with advisory, quote only
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Scytale's auditor network
- ( 07 / 10 )
Audit firm + platform · formerly Laika
Thoropass
An audit firm with a platform: its own AICPA-registered CPA practice sells the software, the readiness work, and the audit together.
- Best for
- Companies that want one vendor for the platform and the audit, or need SOC 1 or HITRUST alongside SOC 2.
- Price
- Quote, with the audit inside the price
- Auditor
- Thoropass's own CPA firm
- ( 08 / 10 )
Security + compliance platform
Oneleet
A security platform with a human-run compliance program: in-house penetration testing, code scanning, MDM, and a Security Program Manager.
- Best for
- Teams that want penetration testing, code scanning, and MDM from one vendor with its own testers.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice; external CPA firms via Oneleet's auditor portal
- ( 09 / 10 )
Open-source compliance
Comp AI
An open-source (AGPL) compliance platform with a sales team. The managed quote typically includes the audit and a resold penetration test.
- Best for
- Teams that want to self-host the platform, or want one price with the audit inside and need the certificate more than the report.
- Price
- Self-host free (AGPL); managed by quote, audit typically inside
- Auditor
- Bundled audit by default; optional in the quote
- ( 10 / 10 )
AI-native compliance
Delve
An AI-native compliance platform with concierge support and a wide catalog that includes AI governance. In March 2026 it was publicly accused of fabricated evidence and rubber-stamp audits, which it denies, and Y Combinator removed it from its directory in April 2026.
- Best for
- Teams that want 24/7 concierge access or EU AI Act mappings, once they have checked how its evidence and auditor arrangements work today.
- Price
- Not published; demo-gated quote
- Auditor
- Referred through Delve's network
Updated 2026-09-15. Vendr figures are anonymized transaction data (fetched 2026-09-03), not vendor list prices. All comparisons.
Screenata vs Secureframe, in detail
Secureframe guides. Vera records.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Secureframe doesn’t do.
Evidence recorded, not guided
Guidance still ends with a person taking the screenshot and uploading it. Vera records the evidence while your team does the actual task — a browser extension or desktop recorder captures it step by step with a capture-time timestamp — and files it with a signed manifest your auditor can verify outside the platform.
Policies from your real stack, traced to proof
Screenata writes policies from infrastructure scans, flags commitments your systems cannot back, and traces each policy sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact. Secureframe starts from templates and links evidence to controls.
Published price, everything inside
Request a scoped quote
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Secureframe reads.
Do
Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team does the task, chases the attestations a dashboard can't, and when she finds a gap she opens the finding and drafts the fix.
Verify & sign
After a human applies the change, Vera re-verifies and files a signed, traceable artifact. She escalates judgment calls rather than acting unattended, which is what keeps auditors comfortable.
Secureframe
Test → flag → guided upload
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Secureframe, in detail
The questions people ask about Secureframe.
Secureframe pricing
What Secureframe costs
Secureframe is quote-based.
- Secureframe: quote-based, scaled by frameworks and headcount, implementation extra
- Request a scoped quote
- Both leave the audit to a CPA firm you choose
Secureframe's own numbers
Eight hours a week, one security person
Secureframe's 2026 benchmark survey of 255 practitioners found teams spend an average of eight hours a week on compliance tasks, that 23% name manual audit preparation as their biggest challenge, and that more than half of companies have one or fewer full-time security professionals. That is the buyer Screenata is built for: the evidence is produced while the team works, and the agent does the hands work rather than the one security person.
Secureframe & CMMC
Where Secureframe stands out
Secureframe has invested in federal frameworks — CMMC 2.0 and FedRAMP — where it is a genuine specialist. Screenata runs SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR through a NIST 800-53 hub so one test proves a control across frameworks, but it does not seed CMMC or FedRAMP programs today. If federal is your path, Secureframe is the stronger fit.
The honest version
When Secureframe is the better fit.
- You need CMMC or FedRAMP, where Secureframe's depth is real
- You want in-house experts on call rather than an agent plus your own auditor
- You have a compliance owner who will drive the platform
Screenata is built for the 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, wants policies grounded in real infrastructure, and would rather operate compliance from Slack and the terminal than a dashboard. More on who we’re for.
Screenata
Request a scoped quote
Every module included, per framework. Published, not sales-gated. The audit is priced by the auditor you choose; we sell no audit and take no referral fee.
Secureframe
Quote.
Third-party figure, not a vendor list price. Ranges scale with frameworks and headcount; see the pricing section above for the full breakdown.
Source: Vendr marketplace: Secureframe pricing (anonymized transaction data), fetched 2026-09-03.
Year one, all in
What year one actually costs.
Sources: Vendr marketplace pages (anonymized transaction data, fetched 2026-09-03); vendors’ own pricing pages and documentation where published; Vanta’s August 2026 screenshot figure; Drata “SOC 2 By the Numbers” 2026. Ranges scale with headcount and framework count; none is a vendor list price unless the vendor publishes one.
Questions
Secureframe alternatives, answered.
What are the best Secureframe alternatives?
It depends on what you valued in Secureframe. For the largest integration catalog, Vanta. For a configurable platform run by a dedicated team, Drata. For advisors inside the subscription, Scytale. For one flat price across many frameworks, Scrut Automation. For the platform and the audit from one vendor, Thoropass. For evidence recorded while your team works and signed for the auditor you choose, Screenata, which we make.
Which Secureframe alternatives support CMMC or FedRAMP?
Secureframe is the specialist on this list. Screenata doesn't seed CMMC or FedRAMP programs today, and this page doesn't track federal coverage for the other vendors, so confirm it directly with each one before you switch. Framework catalogs change often.
How do Secureframe alternatives compare on price?
Most don't publish a price. Thoropass and Comp AI's managed plan put the audit inside the quote, so compare those on a different question: does the vendor that prepares your evidence also provide your auditor?
Is Vanta or Drata better than Secureframe?
All three are dashboards your team drives, with integration tests and uploads for the rest. Vanta leans on the largest integration catalog, Drata on an autopilot you can configure, and Secureframe on in-house experts and federal frameworks. The better pick is the one whose strength matches the gap you're trying to close.
Is Screenata a good Secureframe alternative?
For SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, yes. Secureframe is a guided GRC platform with in-house experts and federal-framework depth. For CMMC or FedRAMP, Secureframe is the better fit.
How much does Secureframe cost compared to Screenata?
Secureframe does not publish pricing.
What can Screenata do that Secureframe can't?
Record evidence while your team does the actual work, with a capture-time timestamp badge and a signed manifest verifiable outside the platform; write policies from infrastructure scans and flag unprovable claims; and trace a policy sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact.
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